[Insert dumbass edition here] >What the heck is this/indie/ is the general for all indie games, such as Age of Decadence, A Hat in Time, Axiom Verge, Baba Is You, Battle Brothers, Battlerite, Card City Nights 2, Cave Story, CrossCode, Cultist Simulator, Darkwood, DashBored, Dead Cells, The Desolate Hope, Disco Elysium, Environmental Station Alpha, FTL, Guacamelee!, Hollow Knight, Knytt, LISA, Lobotomy Corp, Machinarium, Middens, Monolith, Monster Train, Noita, OFF, OneShot, Rimworld, Rain World, Slap City, Slay the Spire, Starsector, Subnautica, Sunless Skies, Tooth and Tail, Underrail, VA-11 HALL-A, Yume Nikki, etc., as well as other games that just don't fit in any other general such as Atelier, Pillars of Eternity, Rayman, and Valkyria Chronicles. /jrpg/ is welcome. Idle games are cool too. Mobile or consoles, Flash or Unity, freeware or early access. This place is a home for the indie game community and indie and obscure games that don't have a home. So be free to talk and share all your hidden gems, forgotten games and starving devs here. >Can I talk about games that already have a general?We mostly discuss games that are not popular enough for their own threads, however, all indie games are allowed. So talk about them if you want, but don't overdo it since you already have other generals for that. >Recommendationshttps://pastebin.com/ZbG0JPSn >Booruhttps://indiegame.booru.org/ >Steam Grouphttps://steamcommunity.com/groups/indiegamesgeneral >OP's pastebin:https://pastebin.com/JqqcnEHCold >>573258973
Ah, Earth Dancer! Your dance has brought me joy and happiness. In gratitude, allow me to bestow upon you this recipe.
>>573925250what the hell is this
>>573925250cdda is a fetish game for freaks just like casualties unknown
>>573925389I wish it was morning all the time
Any advice or tutorial to play Kenshi? I got it during the sales and I've been fighting to understand the controls for about an hour now.
>>573925507Who?
>>573925507Don't be double retarded
>>573925556the artstyle looks cute but do I have to drop 2 bucks on this to play a suicidal amputee
>>573925840No, because you don't play as her. She is just holding down the fort.
>>573924692Damn brat.
>>573920924I see no /keng/ anywhere, also I guess it's hard to find decent and ambitious games that don't have a dedicated fanbase and that never ever got a general in their name
Think it will ever come out?
>/indie/ - Pedophile & Misc. General
>>573926520It had a /vg/ general for ages but it devolved into one of the most revolting circlejerks, nothing to do with with the game.Last I checked they were trying to self-resurrect in /vrpg/.
>>573926705>it devolved into one of the most revolting circlejerkshate when that happens, which is often
>>573924692>goblinismYou fool! You've doomed us all!
>>573928539The goblinism outfit is kinda cute for a joke
>>573929009What outfit?
>>573929092>he doesnt know
[Sad News] The number of Carol sloppa has exceeded other fanart by over 150%
>Broken Reality 2000 releases the same day as Grim Dawn new expanOh well I likely buy it day 1 but will play GD and see if the game gets patched for a better experience after I am done.
>>573933140>Broken Reality 2000 releasesDamn, I didn't know it even got a date. Sick.
>>573933342Announcement says 22th but on the store it says 27th. Hypnagogia is scheduled for 2027.
I found Mr NotCIA in the totally just a massage club wink wink hanging out in the steamer.
Black soulsabsolutely shameless, steals lore and all items from demon/dark souls so far.the amount of random encounters is higher than in FF. It's annoying and I'm only 30 minutes in.
>>573936972I thought BS had enemies on the map that chase you, not random encounters?
>>573893596I enjoyed the terraforming enough to bring it up here, but I cannot fathom the absolute retardation that is the road system and how drones move resources. I can't believe they fucked up this bad such a core part of the gameplay. There is so many things wrong with it, that I could write an essay here.
God damn, starsector start is rough with all these mods. You have to play it as intended now, love it.
>>573938304same thing, many of them are unavoidable if you want to collect chests/items.
>>573924692>Choco plans to add some of the cast back for multiplayerWe are so back
>>573924692>pedo OPIt's all so tiresome.
*carpenter brut intensifies*
The absolute state.
I just spent twenty fucking minutes bubble jumping up a gigantic shaft. Finally got to the top and I'm blocked by a cocksucking bird that mimics all of my movements so I can't pass. FUCK.
>>573949370lol, there's good reason they don't want you there.
Beat Broken Sword 4 and it is easily the worst one in the series.It took the major issues of 3 of shitty controls, way too many swaps between the fixed cameras and terrible graphic options and fixed those mostly.But in return everything else got worse. The visuals are worse, the VA is worse, the puzzles oh my god they broke their own well working system in ways that makes me wonder if this was a new team. Had to tab into a walkthrough so many times and turns out I just didn't get the interactable on the tiny specific cursor toggle only available from 1 specific perspective and standing at a specific angle. The game just refusing to letting you combine things or look at them for the clue you will need before the situation it wants you to do it. Previously many puzzle chains were advanced by talking more to NPCs after interacting with items and environment but that was never spread across multiple screens and maps with 2 minute of travel time between.Plot is mostly the usual but also full of dumb deaths for forced drama and it's a bit too retard to see the chritsians fighting the mafia in a shootout.Absolutely would not recommend playing unless you are invested into the series and want to play 5 after like I am doing.
>>573944530Cry some more. Let it all out for our amusement.
this game called cloud jumper is gonna release soonhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1504820/Cloud_Jumper/don't tell the studio I shared this trailer, it's not officially out yet :Phttps://litter.catbox.moe/hrj8cr.mp4
>>573956473gameplay doko?
>>573956473okay but is it good or is it pandering to furrys?
>>573956017uh oh pedo melty
>>573956017You struck a nerve, the closet pedo is malding.
I don't understand how the OP picture is supposed to be a "pedo dog whistle" of sorts. All I see is the main character of Onirism. Are you guys sure it's not just cultural dissonance?
>>573959368It's just American bible-humping. You have to understand American "culture", it's... sad.
>>573959426I'll try that, thank you.
>>573959426the bible doesn't say anything about onirism
>>573959889You really think conservatists read the Bible?Middle-Eastern man telling them to stop hogging all the wealth and to help poor people?
>>573959993based on the obesity epidemic afflicting the american homeless I would say they actually give the poor too much help
I remember playing a ship building game demo, it was like Primordialis but with guns and lasers and stuff. I can't remember what it was called for the life of me, but now I'm playing a bunch of games like thatSpace scavenger 2 and Pathogenic mainly. It's kind of a fun sort of mini-genre
>>573964281From The Depths?
>>573924692I always felt intensely guilty for liking lolis. But today I found out that my mother reads hardcore toddlercon dark romance smut after she left her phone open by accident.I feel a lot better about buying onirism now. But now I wonder if degeneracy is hereditary...
>>573964775That looks pretty cool, but when I said "ship building" I really meant "space ship building", lol
>>573969686...hah.Sorry, not clue. Space Engineer?
>>573956473Olive a cute. I am curious about the actual gameplay though.
penis
Say, this ship looks kinda familiar.
>>573978260I'm not deep enough into MV to get the reference.
>>573978660It's a Prometheus from Starsector
>>573979368Oh, okay. The only other space game I've ever played was 10 years of EVE Online.
does troubleshooter general still exist somewhere?I've finished the game already so I won't participate but I'm curious
>>573910302semi related but I can't play fullscreenEvery time a game launches full on first launch I go "another game with shitty settings"
https://dredmor.com/CHANGELOG-1.1.5.htmlKeep watching this space.
>>573991093>Dungeons of DredmorWhat year is it?But funny how one of the popular actual roguelikes of the early steam era completely fell out of the zeitgeist because the normalfags do not like roguelikes.
>>573991947Dredmod was too easy to have any kind of longevity as as roguelike.
>>573991947I never liked it, neither mechanically nor aesthetically. The zany humor didn't land for me at all and the crafting was annoying.
>>573993238>I am a humorless person who think all jokes are redditOk.
I wonder if I can give Claude this game and start making mods for it. I am enraged by how my fleet behaves and how I can't micromanage it.
>>573993357You keep chatting with your strawman.For the record I enjoyed West of Loathing or Ben There Dan That, as a couple of examples.
>>573993552>I can't be a humorless loser, I play "fun" games like [obscure as fuck shit]ok
>>573993552That's because Loathing is actually funny.Dredmor was just a shortlived FOTM, it completely flatlined 2 years after release but people still play all the Loathing games including the OG KoL.
>>573993928you don't even know what thread you're in, you pathetic bad faith troll. did you forget your meds again?
>>573994359>i got defeated in an argument so i'm gonna rely on namecallingok
>>573993552This reads like "I can't be racist, I have a black friend."
holy soul
>>573995992>N64 retroslop>a machine that had 100 MHz CPU and 4 MB RAMNow show the system requirements.
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My bad, forgot to return to AZERTY layout.Is this general dead enough that I can talk about that Abyss Ring demo I tried, or is it still busy enough?
>>573927680so basically the rimworld general then
what a play
>>573991947Dreadmore was absolute ass, the jokes were unfunny, the references were incredibly cringy, the gameplay was fucking bad and the art was annoying to look at
>>573993928>he doesn't know KoL certified shitpost
>>573997997Fucking hate that game, Abaddon is so cringe in it. Failbaddon the Armless indeed.
>>573998586
>>573998846ever consider not making "liking shitty games" your whole personality?
>>573924692Niko...
>>573998981
>>573993552>West of LoathingI loved it, the lovecraftian sequel was weaker but still enjoyable. I tried getting into Kingdom of Loathing but I didn't find the system enjoyable at all
>>573999232Go play West of Loathing, anon, you might become a better person!
>>573998981You struck a nerve, he's FURIOuS.
>>573999234>West of LoathingI'm sad I never got to play the DLC, by the time it came out I had forgotten a lot about the game and didn't feel like replaying it.
>>573999505I played Kingdom of Loathing for over a year back around 2004/2005, it was okay I guess. Dropped a ton of meat on getting this picture commissioned (I didn't get my money's worth), saw absolutely no reason to play West of Loathing as any game by the same creator and especially with a similar style was unlikely to be any good or in any way be a game I'd give a shit about.
>>574000019damn that's some early 2000s corestrong aura
>>573999754>DLCwtf I had no idea, and it's been long enough that I don't mind playing through the base game again
>>573991947Dredmor is mediocre at best. Just like tangledeep.
>playing more enshrouded>build a tavern>literally build "tavern counters">look online to see when i unlock ale/mead>game does not have ale/mead>game does not have any alcoholHow the HELL are you gonna have tavern furniture with no ale/mead?
>>574001487Is it a world without fermentation or something?
>>574003059Well there's no fermentation workshop, but I think there was some lore that mentioned mead somewhere. So it exists in the world. I just want to craft the shit.
>>574001487>game does not have ale/meadWhat?
What are we playing today /indie/?I started Luna Abyss yesterday, so I will probably continue that. Maybe play more Jelly is Sticky as well.
>>573999020>save Niko>cook Niko
>>574001487One orange juice please :)
>>574001487Milk bars like in Zelda.
Is there a way to get steam workshop mods for pirated games? Asking for a friend.
>>574010630Ask fren to upload mods, IIRC the only way to get them was patched.
>>574009206I tried the demo for Abyss Ring, been wanting to talk about it while thread was slow but suddenly we're all fast as fuck.
>>574010835talk about it anyway
>>574009206continuing Theta and Paralldox and started Silksong a few days ago which is much better than I was expecting it to be
Shadow of the colossus, origami king or dawn of sorrow?
>>574011354The former.
Alright.It's an incredibly low-budget game that feels like a solo version of Dark and Darker, but with a lot of emphasis put on what kind of loot you get: you want to end your current floor with expensive food items so that you can cook something good, and recover a lot of health and experience.
>>574011393I can't escape Shadow of the colossus forever huh?
Like most games, you have swings (click), overhead hulk smash (scroll up) that deals more damage but cannot be combo'd, and a poke (scroll down) to use your weapon range, at the detriment of damage and stamina.The combat isn't that deep: dodge is too slow to be reliable and enemies have good tracking, and there is no parry system, so either you backpedal constantly while poking, or you go in melee and do the good old Oblivion special: block, attack, block, attack...
>>574011629It's genuinely a blast. A very unique experience that I don't feel like anything else has really recaptured since.
>>574011316>Silksongmy main gripe with it is that it's too long but that's because I prefer metroidvanias to be short and sweet (also re-exploring the massive map after a power up or important event can be a hassle), but the amount of content and it's quality is truly impressive for the game's retail price
>>574012203>metroidvania>last 1 hour>omg it's perfectwhat is wrong with you?
>>574011406>Labyrinth of Mausoleumam I too ESL ETL, actually or is that wrong?
>>574012873more like 10 to 20, Silksong is around 50-60
>>574009206Animal Well.
>>574014054so what you want is a gba metroid instead of a proper metroidvaniayou know you can just say that you don't like metroidvanias no one is gonna judge you
>>574015251I don't know why you have an issue with my preference but outside of Hollow Knight and its sequel I've never played another metroidvania that long, the vast majority of games in the genre are significantly shorter
>>574015574how about dark souls? how about la mulana? how about elden ring? how about persona 5? the speedrun is over 10 hours longyou just don't like true metroidvanias and that's okay
>>574016174>Elden Ring>Persona 5lol okhow about Ori (both), Guacamelee (both), Axiom Verge, Nine Sols, Bloodstained, Rusted Moss, Grime, I could go on
>>574017080>ori>guacamelee>bloodstainedgo back
>>574017562kill yourself
>>574017772(you): >>573999232
i should prob download a bunch of shit from gog-games before it goes down
>>574013439It's wrong.
>>573988942Over on vst if I can remember how to link cross-board>>/vst/2444648
>>574018360unlucky
>>574018360>>>/vst/2444648
>>574017958You probably shouldn't because it's full of viruses. Or at least check the signature if you gonna try to install anything.
>>574016174>the speedrun is over 10 hours longwhat a retarded post
>playing gas station simulator>more like cleanup simulator>i keep finding and throwing shit out>follow the tutorial until it wants me to unlock the warehouse>see how much shit is inside the building>nah fuck that>set gas price to the maximum of $5 to keep customers away>shelves are empty so i don't need to work the cash register >just clean up, fuel cars, call garbage collector, buy more fuel, repeatonce the whole area is clean we can continue with the tutorial
>>574027017have you played votv?
>>574027574yes, i got filtered by the scanning machinenot interested in cleaning up that much shit eitherthose two new games on steam, clean up a whole goddamn library or super market, that's way beyond autismi just want to clean up so i can actually play the game
>>574027017the "white chocolate isn't chocolate" shit is so pedantic, it's made with cocoa butter so it originates from the same goddamn plant ffs
>>574028141Vomit chocolate beats both.
Sex with Heine
>>574028492Americans are a mistake. They are the result of dumping all our unwanted poorfags and bigots on poor locals.
Crap, what was the game, again? Signal Simulator or Legacy of the Void?
>>574030995it's the result of greed and rampant lobbying, giving corporations way too much fucking freedom to do whatever they want
>>574032282Lobbying is a major mistake and I'm surprised Americans aren't constantly seething about it.>Rowling said trans aren't women>Americans are seething>lobbying ruin american culture and public health>"whatever"Also please answer >>574031795
>>574032672One of those is a game, the other is a StarCraft 2 expansion. What is the actual question? Are you looking for Voices of the void?
>>574033584Ha, maybe Voices of the Void, yeah. I remember one is really good and the other is some eternal early access, but I'm not sure which is which.
>>574033735VotV would be the latter, but has more content. And is kind of it's own thing at this point.
>>574034074Voices of the Void, okay. Thanks senpai.
Trying out Solar Expanse, a game where you expand across the solar system, exploit it for resources, and maybe terraform the other planets for human habitation, all while racing against opposing space orgs that are trying to do the same thing.It's kinda like if someone took a diet Kerbal and a diet Terra Invicta, stapled them together, and had the resulting abomination raised by uncle Aurora4x.Very, *very* early access considering how many things are 'to be released', including alternate star systems, and that the enemy space orgs apparently don't really have any AI yet.
>>574034698Is this up to scale?
>>574030876What game and can you actually sex Heine?
>>574035019Yeah, but only doggystyle.
>>574034906Probably
>>574035484Oh for fuck sake. That's really far.
>>574028141Chocolate isn't chocolate if it wasn't harvested by african slaves. I've actually being told basically that by chocolate elitists...
>>574035019https://store.steampowered.com/app/1895460/Dtopia/Characters have affinity levels which probably triggers events, but I doubt sex is one of them
>>574035568Go all the way out to Uranus and the inner planet nametags don't even render anymore. It's *really* far away.But despite being very grounded, it's also pretty sci-fi, the tech tree has shit like fusion-powered rockets and (unimplemented) interstellar travel.
>>574035770>It's a zachtronics gameGoddammit...>3 reviews>Only 1 English reviewYou would unironically be on top of the steam reviews if you posted "Sex with Heine".
>>574036008...I hate space.I hate space so much, it's way too damn big. My small mind cannot comprehend it.
>>574036104There's more emphasis on the story, the puzzles are easy and straightforward, though the variety of rules and gimmicks has been nice at least
Starting a mission is easy, for now. You choose a destination, the spacecraft (which determines things like cargo space and how much 'return home' juice it can hold), the cargo, the launch vehicle (which determines how much junk it can launch and if it's reusable), and finally how much gas it has if you wanna be stingy.The UI could use some work, but they've acknowledged that.
>>574028492This can't be real. Pls mutts tell me it isn't real.
>>574037195What gaem?
>>574037652bruh >>574034698
>>574037652Ostranauts
>>574036104>>It's a zachtronics gameWhat? Did zachtronics reformed itself into a new studio or something?
>>574037652Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel
>>574012203What are some of your favorite Metroidvanias? I'm always looking for new ones (new to me).
>>574037519It's real.In other Fun America Facts, americans who eat real food instead of goyslop are currently sharting themselves to death because there's a cyclosporiasis outbreak going on.Indie games for this feel?
Finally done with The Message from Deep Space.I really wanted a new Sennaar-like game, and I'm not sure if this was it.I enjoyed figuring some of the transmissions out, but it was way too long. A lot of it felt like pointless padding, though maybe it was there to give more context to retards.Now, should I finally play Onirism?I see it keeps getting updates and I kinda want to wait until it's fully done (especially if updates break costume mods).
The moon now has permanent human habitation. These five people will never set foot on earth again.
>>574038747>Did zachtronics reformed itself into a new studioactually yes (Zack doesn't own the Zachtronics IP and doesn't work with that company anymore iirc) but not that one, it's called Coincidence and they've already released a couple of games
>>574035568did you just find out that space is big?
>>574044231I cannot understand how big space is because it's inexplainable.
>>574044582uranus so big
>>574040464>americans who eat real food instead of goyslop are currently sharting themselves to death because there's a cyclosporiasis outbreak going on.>google it>israelThis and the GUARDIANS OF THE STRAIT are the funniest thing the americans are doing this week.
>>574036168I don't have much of an issue with how big space is, but what really freaks me out is the sheer amount of hydrogen concentrated in the sun, and the sun's not even that big for a star. It's sitting there fusing hydrogen every second of every day for billions of years, and there's so much of the stuff that the sun accounts for 99.86% of the entire solar system's mass, mostly as the lightest atomic element.Space is huge, but it's also completely empty on average. Stars and star nurseries aren't, and I think that's way freakier.
I forgot about Angels Fall First.
>>574044817I start feeling like picrel, man.When I grew up we had "Americans are stupid" jokes and exaggerated cherry picked stories about them doing dumb shit. Then I grew older and realized that it was just that, jokes and stories. Yet I feel the pendulum is starting to swing the other way again.
>>574041841>zach doesn't own zachthronics>zachthronics shutdownwhat the hell is happening to the world
>>574045242If you think that's creepy, things only get way creepier as entropy increases.
>>574041841whatthe fuck
I'm confused.In Darkwood, you're not meant to kill everyone?Like... why wouldn't you? The woods are eating everyone, you might think you're doing good by sparing them, but you're only letting them agonize. Isn't it better to kill them and save them from insanity?Is it just me?
>>574049809man, girls must fawn over you.
Well this is some shit, these guys are the same colour scheme as the aether tech guns I've found in a few other runs.
>>574055414Full spoopy sector, it's listed as the ?th sector instead of a number.
>>574055414>>574055581Oh you're in for a treat now.Hit EVERY sector that has a [Ruins] label. Trust me.
>>573964781haha the joke is that orchid children look like flowers and you're a monster if you pick them from a field of flowers which is actually an orchid nursery
>>574030876>it's released>not EAwow
>>574035770that looks like postknight but good
Anyone played this?https://store.steampowered.com/app/3214610/Cinderia?snr=1_25_4__318
208/314 puzzles.
act 1 is the hardest act on a9/10
>>574049809Everyone is doomed in real life and most people are likely to be more miserable than happy for the remainder of their lives but that doesn't mean you should just start killing everyone you meet.If the people in darkwood want to die they'll do it themselves.
>>574060280Does this game have controller support? I'm always on the hunt for new puzzles but I only have a Steam Deck.
>>574059414I had my eye on it but am leery of early access in general.
an indie bump in the night
>have been keeping tabs on a dev since the Flash era>have liked all his games>he's abandoned literally every single one halfway through development>every time I think 'maybe this time he'll commit', every time proven wrongI like his games but fuck, three times now.
I'll finish it tomorrow, one chapter left. Looks like I'm on track for the "happy" ending. There are normal and bad endings, but I don't know if I'd be compelled to replay for them, not unless the story goes in a dramatically different direction. My issue with these kinds of choices in story games is that I can't help only wanting the best outcome if it's available. These aren't trolley problem-tier decisions. But I guess other players might still see it another way. As far as the puzzles go, I appreciate how there are optional ones to find that are a bit more challenging. It's almost like a mini The Witness.
>>574064831Fair.
>>574047976>>574049337> Back in 2016, we sold Zachtronics to a company called Alliance, who we worked for as employees and made all the Zachtronics games from SHENZHEN I/O onward. In 2022 we stopped working for them and started a new studio called Coincidence, which we own and run as a sort of co-op that allows us to work on projects together, or not together, or anything in-between. (By "we" I mean the five of us who made all the Zachtronics games from SHENZHEN I/O onward; the team was much more dynamic before that, as described in the first few pages of ZACH-LIKE.)> I still work for Alliance and maintain the Zachtronics games, but we don't own any of that IP, so anything new we make is going to be attached to the new studio and the new name.>(I did spend a year teaching computer science at a public high school, but that overlapped the last year of Zachtronics, rather than being between Zachtronics and Coincidence like it's often reported.)>At Coincidence, we have released two puzzle games so far, Kaizen: A Factory Story and U.V.S. Nirmana, and have more (four?) in the works. I'm hoping that I'll get to work on some less-obviously-in-the-genre games soon, but I haven't git initted anything yet so I guess it's too early to say.>>574049809speaking of Darkwood, the upcoming sequel is made by the Pathologic devs, isn't it?
>>574081187It is.The gameplay visuals do not look good.
>>574081476yeah I'm not too hopeful tbqh. After such a successful title Acid Wizard made a fucking soccer game and then disappeared, I don't get it
>>573999020a...?!
>>574081937You just can't trust the poles
>>574082401LOOK OUT TED!
>>574081937>>574082401found some answers>The Acid Wizards are still consulting on the project, actually it was the Acid Wizards who set everything up and contacted us at Hooded Horse about becoming involved as publisher. Here's some quotes from them:>“Crafting the world of Darkwood was a very challenging and long journey for the team,” says Acid Wizard co-founder Gustaw Stachaszewski. “After an experience like that, you become emotionally attached to your work. We know that the fans have been eagerly awaiting a continuation of Darkwood. For years, the idea of handing over our baby to another studio was something unthinkable for us. But, after it became evident that working together is not viable anymore, we decided that Darkwood should live on, even if not directly through our work.”>“We're genuinely excited to pass on the torch to Ice-Pick Lodge - creators whose work on Pathologic has inspired us for years. The team at IPL really gets what makes Darkwood a unique experience. We believe they will not only honor its spirit but will create something truly exceptional. As for us, we'll be in the background, making sure it stays true to the original vision.”
>>574082701>The team at IPL really gets what makes Darkwood a unique experienceLike the unnerving high quality pixel art, the stuff you spend the overwhelming majority of the game looking at and interacting with, which is going to be the visual focus of many if not the majority of the most memorable moments of playing the game. That they've replaced with mediocre 3D models.
>>574083332I'm somewhat hopeful that the style is still subject to changeEven if they keep it 3D, maybe they can make it less grating that the first trailer
>>574083332maybe the reason is just good old fashioned incompetence, they've only made 3D games after all and they are not exactly lookers.Anyway this reminds me of the change between the first and the second Synthetik(does anybody know whether 2 is decent now btw?)
I'm really enjoying Deep SleepIt's incredible how Scriptwelder never really tried to become better at pixel art though
>>573925647Kenshi evacuated to /vrpg/ after a stubborn struggle at staying afloat among the gatcha hordes. They put up a valiant fight though.
I'd kill for a Duskers clone that was a proper survival sandbox instead of a wonky roguelike.
I'm surprised by how fun Palworld is. I thought it was just "pokemon but without the money and with extra edge".
I'd kill for a Dusk clone.
I'd kill.
>>574089703>I'd kill for a Duskers cloneBoy, it's time we talk about Xenopurge>a proper survival sandbox instead of a wonky roguelike.nevermind
>>574018469>>574018360thanks!
>>574067048You know steam lists if games have controller supports on the game pages
Hey! You guys having a darkwood discussion without me?>>574049809It's up to you man, what exactly do you mean by>you're not meant to kill everyone?I don't think there is an intended way to play, I'm sure you can kill quite a few people and justify it to yourself however you like.>>574081187>>574081476>>574082701>>574083332I remember they floated the idea of passing off the IP years earlier. And I remember wishfully thinking that IPL would probably be the only people I'd trust with that shit, so it's really funny that that pipe dream actually became real.But I do agree the style of the new game looks whack as hell.Plus I hope the game has no connection to the previous game except in name. It takes place on the other side of the continent, so there is hope.Honestly, Darkwood doesn't need a sequel, I'd much rather see a game LIKE Darkwood, if that makes sense.Also forgot the name, but I believe the Darkwood project lead is working on some new game.>>574081937>made a fucking soccer game and then disappearedpretty sure they didn't even finish it, there's only an Alpha
>>574096820I do know that, but I also know that there have been times where that's inaccurate (and even times where it says no controller support/Steam Deck unsupported, and yet the game works fine with a controller/Steam Deck).
>>574097329https://steamcommunity.com/app/1492620/discussions/0/596272971446765342/Usually I just check the game's forum. Someone is always asking about the deck.
>>574097375I actually saw that very thread while searching for an answer. What can I say, I trust my lovely pals over at /indie/ more than I do julian.
You guys have probably already played it, but I can give a hearty recommendation for Crow Country if you're looking for a cool survival horror game. It's on the easy side (maybe Hard is actually hard, I always play first on Normal and haven't done a second run) but it has a great setting, some humor, doesn't drag on forever, and has that "made with love" feeling.
>>574097589what's the point of making a ps1 grafix game on the ps5
>>574079572do you get to decorate? can you change into cute outfits?
>>574097589I think I played it.Very good, but the story gave me depression and anxiety.
>>574100636vibes
>>574100636whats the point of trying to make higher and higher fidelity graphics?
>>574100992Work inflation. It's a nice way to prevent small creators from making games by raising standards, making sure that only big studios get to release games.And sadly that cuckold >>574100636 is falling for the bait because he's a retard.
>>574100992the engine allows it?
>>574101698the engine allows you to brick the users device, should you do this?the engine allows you to ping the cpu/gpu usage at 100% the entire time you run the game, should you do this?the engine allows you to make an awful game, should you do this?
>>574100728Seems common in survival horror. If I feel "something" while playing a game I count it as a win.>>574100636Charm, nostalgia, simplicity, cost.
>>574101775I assume anon meant "because they can." Why not? Why make the blood green, or the hair long, or the pistol magazine hold 10 rounds? Artistic choice, the basis of all art or entertainment. Would you have been more apt to play Crow Country if it had RDR2/TLOU2 graphics? Would others have been less likely to play it for that reason?
Why is it so hard to start new games but so easy to replay old ones?
>>574102232Because people are comfortable with familiarity. I'm the same way. Although I have been branching out more lately. I even beat a few new (to me) games recently, if you can believe it.
Is Star Wars Dark Forces any good? I was looking for more shooters to play and I apparently missed this one. Don't have strong feelings toward Star Wars one way or the other but saw it was by Nightdive and I've played some of their other remasters.
>>574096845>the Darkwood project lead is working on some new gamehttps://bloody-disgusting.com/video-games/3941739/darkwood-co-creator-announces-psychological-horror-title-hoarder-trailer/>The goal of the game is simple: declutter a house abandoned by a hoarder. You’ll start with the typical hand-holding of a job simulator: checklists, quest markers and clearly-defined goals. However, beneath the trash is a basement that leads to a facility that defies geometry. As you descend into said basement, the game puts away the support system you had at the beginning, leaving you to fend for yourself.>Once you descend, a day-and-night cycle begins in the game, and the facility you find becomes your new home. Each day, you’ll explore more of it, as it changes over time and through your actions. You’ll operate an underwater submarine to explore the deep-sea floor, viewed through a LiDAR scanner. Meanwhile, back in the outside world, you’ll come across a variety of strange finds, which can be brought back to your base and used as salvage to unlock new parts of the facility, upgrade existing ones, or push the story forward.
>>574104553>bloody-disgusting.comagree
>>574105168>>574105605I didn't realize that there's already a steam page for it, I like the aestheticshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3551140/Hoarder/
>>574104553looks fairly interesting.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsuDT3VrgyE
>>574101698The hyper realistic graphical fidelity a lot of games started going for have become increasingly expensive and time consuming to achieve while providing less and less noticeable graphical improvement over older games.Ray tracing is the biggest example, its implementation difficult to notice over properly made lighting systems of old, and its implementation in some games even being a core graphical feature you cannot disable has bricked the performance on a lot of hardware. And one "solution" has just been to use AI to generate fake frames and pretend your framerate is actually higher than it is like if you printed your own obviously fake currency to pretend your bank account was bigger than it was.Realistic graphical fidelity plateaued very sharply I'd say at the release of the witcher 3, which was over a decade ago at this point. Almost everything after that has been delusional developers chasing increasingly unreasonable and difficult to notice graphical standards or nvidia pushing scam graphics technology to developers so people will buy their increasingly expensive hardware just to be able to play games.
Pretty cool, like a weird Minecraft meets Noita game where blind experimentation is how you progress. Anyone else played it?
>>574105605>>574105845anon?
>>574106626you didn't see anything
>>574106226only for an hour or so but it seemed interesting, it felt cool to move through such a wacky world without knowing what to expect. Do you find a way to move the spawn eventually? Going back to the start was a bit annoying
>>574107190Yes, there are two ways to move your spawn and both can be available pretty early
>>574107334nice, I was thinking about going back to it soon. I think I had just found a propeller that lets you move very quickly and I used it to escape from some creepy sea monster
>>574055581Sounds like it should be good.It was a crummy drone I immediately sold for 25 scrap.
>>574107608Yeah no fucking shit that's 'modest' bitch. Give me 300 scrap and I'll think about it, fucking lowballing cunt.
>>574107525If you're talking about some kind of big sea urchin I only saw these twice in my playtime, they seem super rare
>>574107760Slightly less crap offer and I need the fuel, but I figure I can get the fuel out of your corpse too.
>>574107872it was more like a black sea dragon thing I think? It was fast and it followed me for a while despite me zooming over the water, almost killed me in one hit too I was legit scared lol
>>574108080The hell, I've never seen that lel
>>574108158since it's procedural and so esoteric it's probably difficult to find everything, like in LSD Dream Emulator
>>574107927Saw another ruins so I went diving for it.Upside: I got a bunch of cool shit.Downside: I'm on 8 hull and 2 fuel, and the rebels have taken the exit beacon.
>>574105605>>574105845
I HAVE NEEDS OKAY
>>574000019They are fun rpgs and I don't have to concern myself with doing daily busywork which is what kills me over time.
>>574055414The monster energy raceFollowed by the monster energy zero ultra royalty.
Just finished Witch of the Dark Castle. Ignore the 87% positive steam rating, this shit is like playing with tabletop with an awful railroading DM.It frequently gives you choices that cause instant game over, it presents false choices that lead you to the same result no matter which you pick and it wastes your time with battles that result in game over because you shouldn't have chosen to fight at all. I mean there is a literal choice to fight a bronze golem and if you win the game says it topples over and crushes you, game over.It has the description for how combat works at the beginning of every fight in the game with no way to skip it and if you reload your save which you will it has no option to skip already seen text.Shit sucks.
>>574113463Isn't that the authentic gamebook experience?
>>574102232For me the is the other way around. I get more easily hooked by new experiences and gimmicks. I played so many games in my lifetime, I could probably never get a new game again and spend the rest of my life replaying old shit, but I still feel compeled to try new things all the time and drop what I am doing.I do have this experience with tv shows though. I always have some confort show, old style adventure of the week with 10 seasons or something, and always fall back to watching those, because they are familiar and "safe".
>>574102232I don't have an answer to that but I think it's why it's so easy to stick with gacha slop, once you find one you like it becomes a comfort game to return to that also gets updated frequently.I wish rain world had a 6 weeks content schedule
Just finished EP1 of Muffles' Life Sentence. Pretty cool game, big OFF vibes.
>WW2 game whitewashing Nazi women for stupid reasons>"It's not believable">"They were victims too"Shit like that makes me puke.
>>574102778>>574115094No you don't understand! My 11th randomized run of pokemon/castlevania is a completely fresh and different experience than my other 10 runs and it's completely different than my 5 previous runs of the game!!
>>574115582Shouldn't have left burgers in charge of nuremberg
>2026>indie devs choosing 2 colors for their games and that's it
>>574116243You find more.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4120310/70sstyle_Robot_Anime_GeppyX/>that priceAre they out of their mind?
>>574117903japs are jewish as fuck when it comes to game prices
>>573924692tangledeep any good?is it fun?
>>574113463>Ignore the [...] steam ratingI usually do.
Found out an indie game I was looking forward to got cancelled :(https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pocketllama/toasty-ashes-of-dusk/posts/4715836
First impression of Broken Sword 5 is pretty nice. They went back to pre drawn 2d environment but kept the 3d models with way higher quality.They even have insane parallax effect in the background for the city houses in like 6 layers. Looks nice.But also they went back to prerendered into movie file instead of ingame so that looked blurry as fuck.
>>574120525I spot three glasses, but only two victims.
>>574097589I liked how it added an aiming mechanic without turning into a full on over the shoulder action shooter. I feel like more games should try to carve out a middle ground like it did.>>574100636With horror it honestly makes a lot of sense to keep things a bit low fidelity.Monsters and areas with distinct designs that are just poorly rendered enough for the player to have to fill in the blanks with a little imagination (Silent Hill, RE1,2 and 3, Signalis and so on) are much more effective for a lot of people than modern big spectacle horror games.
>>5741206813 empty in foreground, 3 in gackground on the floor, one is shattered
>>574120681The priest hid quite a few glasses from view.
>>574123202BTW you're in the "blue lizard".
>>574123202And another bottle.Also watch out there's a sniper!
>>574105605HU HUH
>cat mail has comfy visuals>but also bugs and no manual saving>arcane library is autism>with ugly blurry upscaling>supermarket is library without the soul
>>574127445lmao
>>574096845>I don't think there is an intended way to play, I'm sure you can kill quite a few people and justify it to yourself however you like.I mean morally? I always thought that killing people living in a shit world would be a mercy kill, but apparently I'm the only person thinking that?
>>574127445I AM A HUMAN BEING
>>574128047
>>574127686autism organizing bros are feasting, but they're just putting out the slopits not fairall 3 of these have made me want to make my own indie shit to try and ride the trend and get rich
>>574127686The two first ones looks super comfy.
shoppe sloppe
>>574131025>TCG card shopAre these a real thing?
>>574131223Yes
>>574131223aye, and it's pretty good
>>574114397I think I like both. I like discovering new games and mechanics, but I also sometimes crave the familiarity of a known game.
I just put all new simulator games in ignore list
>>574105845>>574127445I don't see what's wrong.
lil' witch nobitches
>>574135184Nobeta Spanking Simulator when?
>>574135184>>574137091That's the World Cup Sheep of Misfortune.
>>574131223aye, and its pretty bad
>>574138148So that's what Essie is known for now huh? I knew her as the nurse who sounds way too happy to see blood and gore at work.
ok maybe AGDQ isn't that bad.I am witnessing true beauty here. Truly a divine work.
>>574097589It's on a great sale right now because Mermaid Mask is about to come out.
>>574128507here is an idea: make a super light weight 2d slop that runs on a potato, or in a internet browser even.have you seem how much downloads that task bar idle game got? Idle games are overdone at this point, but what made people download was how light and casual it looks.All these slop >>574131025 have a common denominator: all 3d games.
>>574150328the next fest was full of little destkop games, I assume all of them flopped because I heard about none of them again.
>>574150535i didn't pay attention to the next fest, but I bet they all tried to ride on the success of the main one (that was in the top steam downloads at some point) without offering nothing new, while also speedrunning the development of their product. Its always the same story.I am merely trying to suggest a casual 2d game in vein of >>574127686
Any blasphemous 2 enjoyersI just got the mea culpa and holy fuck this is awful. It's way weaker and slower than the Ruego, and the empowered shit goes away when taking one tick of damage and punishes you even further with guilt. Who the fuck thought of this? It's just a straight downgrade
>>574152831Oh that's a good idea, I should keep playing one. It was pretty decent.
If I had a dollar for every community-made major game expansion titled Multiverse, I'd have two dollars, which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice.
>>574152831i did not buy the mea culpa dlci'm not too surprised though, none of the weapons in 2 felt amazing compared to just the sword in 1
>>574109505End of sector 4, should be setup for the rest of the game.
>>574163291cringe
>>574151686Thats just https://store.steampowered.com/app/1629520/A_Little_to_the_Left/isn't it?
I live in a parody of a country. My deputy joked about the blissful sleep dlc of beholder right before voting yes to a law legalizing euthanasia.
where is my FUCKING starsector update
>>574165865What the fuck. Venezuela?
>>574165865I saw it too but I'm pretty sure it's fake. I couldn't find the original and there are no serious sources relaying it.>>574166158France legalized euthanasia.
>>574045242For me it's Earth getting about 1kW of power per square meter, you can feel how it burns when go outside. At 1AU, only two billionth on a sphere surface. For billions of years. So many energy wasted.
>gotten to boss several times>teleportitis into lava>random bullshit deaths noita is cruel.
>>574181285Noita is not cruel. Noita is indifferent.
>>574190218squeezed out a win. Now to work towards killing side bosses, I heard its not easy.
>>574165865oh that's actually pretty cool, you can go kill yourself now
>>574191881Grattis polarn
>>574191881You heard right. It can be easy, if you both know what you are doing and have what you need. This is seldom the case.
Noita is not that hard, it just filters NPCs because you need to think outside the box
>>574202406more like its all rng shit and waiting 2 hours for the bridge boss to kill himself at the start of every single run
me while playing Tainted Grail
>>574202950How so?
>>574202406it filters anyone that cares about their time because digging through the entire world for 8 hours just to find the 3 spells you actually need while avoiding any random instant death pixel is not fun or particularly engaging
